List of Famous people born in Greece
Hypereides
Hypereides or Hyperides was an Athenian logographer. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.
Praxiteles
Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attica sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist.
Yannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
Eva Kaili
Eva Kaili is a Greek politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and former television news presenter who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Kiki Dimoula
Vasiliki “Kiki” Dimoula was a Greek poet. She was the first female poet ever to be included in the prestigious French publisher Gallimard’s poetry series.
Akis Tsochatzopoulos
Apostolos Tsochatzopoulos, commonly known by the diminutive form Akis, is a Greek former politician who served as a minister in several Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cabinets between 1981 and 2004.
Mustapha Khaznadar
Mustapha Khaznadar, was Prime Minister of the Beylik of Tunis from 1837 to 1873. He was one of the most influential people in modern Tunisian history.
Kostas Stafylidis
Konstantinos "Kostas" Stafylidis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for German club 1899 Hoffenheim and the Greece national team.
Queen Helen, The Queen Mother of Romania
Helen of Greece and Denmark, was the queen mother of Romania during the reign of her son King Michael I (1940–1947). She was noted for her humanitarian efforts to save Romanian Jews during World War II, which led to her being awarded by the State of Israel with the honorific of Righteous Among the Nations in 1993.
Stefanos Korkolis
Stefanos Korkolis is a Greek composer and pianist. He has performed in theaters and auditoriums all around the world, like the Concertgebouw, the Opera de la Corunia, the Belém Cultural Center, the Royal Theater Carré, the Athens Concert Hall, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.